Staff Software Engineer - AI Marketing - US (Remote) at Luxury Presence
$200,000–$250,000
Jul 9, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Staff Software Engineer role focused on leading platform architecture and delivering AI-powered features for a real estate SaaS product. Day-to-day work spans owning critical backend systems, integrating LLMs and agent frameworks into product experiences, and shaping engineering standards across a microservices codebase. Suited to a seasoned engineer with deep TypeScript and distributed systems experience who already incorporates AI tooling into their development workflow.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $200,000–$250,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,450 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,100–5,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The JD lists Kafka and SQS as a paired event-driven requirement ('Kafka, SQS'); Kafka is emitted as the primary with SQS as an alternative, but both are used together in the stack — the pairing reflects the required capability rather than strict interchangeability.
PostgreSQL and DynamoDB are similarly listed together as 'distributed databases'; PostgreSQL is emitted as primary with DynamoDB as an alternative, though both appear in the tech stack section.
AWS is listed as 'preferred' in the requirements section ('AWS preferred'), so it is treated as a hard gate on cloud platform experience with Azure and GCP as named alternatives.
Kubernetes, Redis, Temporal, Tailwind, Apollo, Lambda, and DynamoDB appear only in the 'Tech Stack' narrative section, not in the requirements block, so they are marked preferred.
Claude Code is called out as a core workflow expectation in the attributes section but is framed as a cultural/behavioral attribute rather than a hard technical gate; marked preferred accordingly.
The role is explicitly titled Staff Software Engineer and the scope (cross-team architecture, org-wide standards, force-multiplier framing) genuinely supports Staff-level classification.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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